Designed by Halliday Fraser Munro the hotel would accommodate an associated restaurant, bar, conference and leisure facilities and is located within the grounds of Kingswells House, a 17th century Quaker meeting place.

At five storeys in height the hotel will act as a hub for the wider business park and employs a materials palette comprising blue tinted glass, granite rainscreen and metal composite panels.

In their design statement Halliday Fraser Munro write: “The building is essentially a series of varying planes that express the internal use within. The design creates a series of clean, crisp lines yet retaining a simple volumetric composition.

“The introduction of projecting structural column lines clad in charcoal metal composite panels, set back from the black frame above, creates a rhythmical series of bays that provides a strong podium from which the elegant framed curtain walling planes rise.”

A mid 19th Century consumption dyke which crosses the site will be retained

De Vere's hotel is intended to act as the 'hub' of a wider office park